No matter our knowledge or passion sometimes things go awry – best intentions and all that – resulting in a tea travesty. Have you ever…

…poured the water to steep your tea and forgot to put the tea in?

…left tea to brew and forgot it?

…let a perfectly good cup of tea cool to the point of tepid blech?

…ripped open the outer tea packet and ripped the teabag as well?

…put sweetener in your tea having forgot that you already did?

…mistook the salt for the sugar?

…poured milk in before making sure it was still good resulting in sour or curdled grossness?

…accidentally dropped something in your tea that rendered it undrinkable?

…put sugar and milk in before realizing you never took the bag out?

…forgot to use the strainer when pouring steeped loose leaf?

…forgot to hold the lid of a non-locking teapot while pouring causing it to either fall into your cup or crash to the floor and crack?

…tried to put your mug back down on the table without looking and missed?

…used water too cold for black tea and created muddy water?

…used water too hot for green tea and made it a bitter beast?

…forgot to clean the leaves out of your teapot which then grows mold and you don’t tell anyone because that’s gross and if you’re writing a blog encouraging quality tea use how could you do something like that (this happened to a friend of mine)

We have all been there, luvvies and we will all live to tea another day;)